“In the wake of Congressional inaction and Republican stall tactics, unfortunately, we will continue to be hamstrung by outdated and inadequate
statutory authorities that the legislation would have fixed," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in an emailed response to whether the
president is considering a cybersecurity
order.

Is this a threat from the administration, or just more political rhetoric building up toward the election?

I think with all of the orders Obama has issued so far, there is probably a good chance that is exactly what will happen. And if that is the route
this takes, who knows what other provisions will be added to circumvent the ones that supposedly do need the House and Senate to approve.

Lewis acknowledged that the provisions of the Cybersecurity Act that would have torn down legal barriers to information-sharing would have to be
enacted by Congress. Although those provisions were the ones most strongly supported by the business community, Lewis expressed skepticism that they
would do much to improve cybersecurity anyway.

Personally, I would like to see executive order powers stripped from the office of the president. I think that is extremely unlikely though.

Allegedly one of the main reasons for this cyber security bill is to protect critical infrastructure systems from hackers and or terrorists. I have
come across conflicting reports of how likely it is that this could be done or even if it's possible. But I am leaning more toward the view that
someone would have done it by now if they could have.

The fact of the matter is that it isn’t easy to do any of these things. Your average power grid or drinking-water system isn’t analogous to a
PC or even to a corporate network. The complexity of such systems, and the use of proprietary operating systems and applications that are not readily
available for study by your average hacker, make the development of exploits for any uncovered vulnerabilities much more difficult than using
Metasploit.

Originally posted by benrl
So apparently they didn't get the message that this was not the will of the people.? Look at the anger and uprising on the net over sopa, it got it
defeated rather soundly...

Go ahead though let them keep pushing us, one day it will be one push to many.

Like a foreign country that has invaded and send mandates to the puppet government to hurt the people....

I honestly see them as our greatest enemy. there is little doubt IMO..

We have been taken over by traitors and enemies of state. They hate us and want to hurt us....

They are out to make our country a second rate dictatorship. This is just one example of the traitor that is our president and our runaway government.
The FBI protects them even though they are there to fight organized crime, yet they target us at the request of obvious power hungry domestic
terrorists in office.

I have no respect for our government,.....how can I? Everything they do hurts us, targets us, and makes us scared to react...

Well not me anymore... I openly say that I want them to all go away....how ever. Every thing like this is an example of their hate for us. They hate
us and insult us, abuse us, threaten us, cause us all sorts of pain and anguish....we are occupied by enemies of state. Thieves, liars and terrible
human beings..Them and those that defend them.

An occupying army would be an improvement. At least people wouldn't give aid and comfort to the enemy the way they do. At least our supposed defenders
of the country would know who the real enemy is. Now they lie to themselves and us about how they cant tell..

how is it we all see things like this that the OP talks about and know better then them...?...not buying it. They changed teams. I hope bad things
happen to them professionally and personally. I CURSE THEM. They have ruined our country and our world. This is just one example.

Originally posted by benrl
So apparently they didn't get the message that this was not the will of the people.? Look at the anger and uprising on the net over sopa, it got it
defeated rather soundly...

Go ahead though let them keep pushing us, one day it will be one push to many.

Probably when Facebook & Twitter go offline..

I don't think this would be too far off the mark if Facebook and Twitter went down.

Teens and twenty-somethings would be camped out on the White House lawn.

you are right.....our government has our best interests in mind...they use domestic spying and Anti terror laws to target AMERICANS overwhelmingly
because they care......I see the light now.....Obama cares....

Sorry. I thought they hated us and laughed at how stupid we are and how they can get away with doing what ever the hell they want.....even if we all
in our vast MAJORITY do not want it...

They know better huh....yeah, that´s it.....they are so smart that they can tell that the real enemy of the USA is the people of the USA.....

ok. thanks for that. To think that I thought they just had a fixation with paranoia and domestic terrorism... because we are all secretly hateful
ignorant monkeys and they need the tools to do the job of zoo keepers.....damn, they have it rough. We are a horrible people that deserve punishment
and harassment.....silly us.

Obama is sucking up to the UN and their upcoming agenda with their world conference less than three month's away on re-writing the treaty on governing
the internet. Unfortunately, for Obama, some of the more intelligent members in the Senate are on to this agenda.

The International Telecommunications Union meets in Dubai shortly to discuss how they "can get their ugly globalist money-making fee-imposing
global-controlling tentacles" in America's business.

And Obama is the man to do it!! After all, he wants to "fundamentally change America". You bet he does.

More than all the other presidents put together if you exclude Bush, who did quite a few himself. I don't see 600 orders in my search, can you
please provide link? I think there should be a limit of 3 per term or something like that.

I agree, even 1 executive order is too many. It goes against the entire concept of a Constitutional Republic.

US presidents have issued executive orders since 1789. Although there is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits executive
orders, there is a vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration
"take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" made in Article II, Section 3, Clause 4. Most Executive Orders use these Constitutional reasonings
as the authorization allowing for their issuance to be justified as part of the President's sworn duties

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